Banksy reveals his fifth work at ‘London Zoo’, two pelicans ‘catching’ a pair of fish in a restaurant

The British artist known as Banksy confirmed this Friday the authorship of A new work in a fish and chips restaurant Located in the northeast of the British capital, the fifth creation that is revealed in what we have so far this weekall of them starring animals, in a series already dubbed “London Zoo”.

Through a post on Instagram, the artist uploaded at 12:00 a photograph of the new painting, located above the Bonners Fish Bar, in the Walthamstow neighborhood of London, where they appeared Two pelicans “catching” a couple of fishone of them integrated into the restaurant’s own sign.

Hours before Banksy confirmed his authorship of the work, several photographs of the painting were leaked on social media and the Labour MP for the Walthamstow constituency, Stella Creasycelebrated the new graffiti that the neighborhood had woken up with and thanked the artist for bringing “a little magic” to its streets.

This new announcement, the fifth in five consecutive days, came after Banksy unveiled his fourth work, a wolf howling inside a satellite dish in Peckham, south-east London, which was stolen an hour after it was posted on social media. A group of hooded men climbed onto the roof of the shop using a ladder, dismantled the satellite dish and ran off down the avenue with the Banksy creation, while passers-by looked on in amazement.

It is the fifth work that Banksy presents in this “animal” series that began on Monday in the Kew Green neighborhood, in Richmond, also southwest of the British capital, starring a goat on top of a ledge from which several rocks fall while a real surveillance camera points at it. This first work was followed Two elephants looking through a window in Chelsea, three monkeys hanging from a bridge at a tube station near Brick Lane Market; and the wolf, which, after the theft, can no longer be seen in its original location. The collection is expected to will be expanded in the next few dayss.

Banksy is known for raising awareness of social, political and environmental issues through his street art in various parts of the world; his works are highly sought after, reaching tens of millions of euros at auctions.